Tender Quotes

No matter how tough the meat may be, it's going to be tender if you slice it thin enough.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories.

The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

I am a tender, beautiful and loving guy that happens to slap a photographer now and then because they get in my way.

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.

Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.